In terms of generationally did not prepare us for the work that needs to happen today. Thats the critique i was making about trading on individual success without a sense of social responsibility. Who are your parents . My parents are both retired professionals. One was a School Teacher and administrator of the Chicago Public schools for 35 years and my father recently retired was photojournalist. He worked for Johnson Johnson publishing in the early days, charlotte observer, news day, for past 20 years, New York Times staff photographer. Are they retired from new york. My mother always lived in chicago. My parent were divorced when i was young. My father lived in new york for over 30 years. What is your lineage . The famous part of my lineage, the part i know as opposed to distantly, im greatgrandson of the founder of Elijah Mohammed founder of nation of islam. My mother never converted but very much formative to my early years my First Cousins aunts and uncles all very much part of t
Very similar or reset rehashing arguments or some sort of justification. It is not a summary process. Recently in the new york book review it was an iraq war veteran story. So many of those books have come out. How do you choose just one . It is perspective. Its a very subjective thing, very imperfect art. Its your looking for somebody who has some kind of unique twist, some kind of different argument something magical happening in the voice of the pros. How did you get this . I love criticism. The program in fiction writing. I love reviews, reading quick reading critics. I started working at publishers weekly, trade magazine that churns out. I went over to npr and worked on reviews. Do we ever see your byline . Yes. I write every now and then nonfiction. Working on a review about a photographer that is going in our issues. Yeah. How long have you been here . Three years. Thank you for your time. Thank you. One of those few sections of the paper that have our own dedicated coffee book.
That collection arrived at the 135th Street Public Library 90 years ago. He was a bibliophile who migrated from puerto rico in 1891 found a job on wall street work in the mailroom saves his pennies and worked really hard and bought anywhere are unique but he could find that was by or about black people. He eventually became famous for this collection. People would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library to borrow from the Library People like Langston Hughes and eventually people like and when the librarian at the library and library decided she had a lot of lack patrons coming to the library and a large immigrant community at the time she said ive got to find material for my patrons and ultimately schombergs collection of 5000 items was purchased by Carnegie Corporation and a variety of 90 years ago and made up the core of what now today is a 10 million item collection at the Schomberg Center. Host how did the Schomberg Center end up at 135th . Guest this was the settlement zone
Sitting in tonight was carved out of the old kitchen space. A word about one gubernatorial connection i offer to offer full disclosure in the presence of my old colleague mike klein. Both of us proudly serve in the administration of another governor, mario cuomo and instructed to remember whether it was because of the lesson of attica or his own innate patience, humanity and negotiating ability, mario cuomo was able to face a prison uprising of his own. In his case at sing sing, only 17 days after he was sworn in as governor in 1983 with a strikingly different result. Hostages were taken, demands were made, that was a bit of memory i wanted to share. Lets turn the clock back 25 years from todays house was restored for this kind of discussion. The event we are gathered to approach is the attica prison uprising from 1971, its causes, its meaning and the truth and consequences of deadly suppression, to focus on these truths our special guest tonight is doctor Heather Ann Thompson, detroit
What is this building is x. This is the original 1905 branch of the new york outlook library where the schomburg collection arrived in 1925 and behind that first board set up windows is where we saw the jacob lawrence. This is in many ways the historic home that is this amazing institution today. Its still a critical part of the overall facility and it is home to many treasures that we looked out. Host and the red dirt building is also part of the harlem hospital over there across the street. Khalil mohammed director of the Schomburg Center thank you for your time. Thank you peter. Is a former Washington Post out for myself is quite a treat to be introducing bob woodward. I first met bob when i interned at the post back in the summer of 1974, the summer of course that president nixon resigned and its really quite remarkable to look back four decades and see that watergate wasnt a onetime hit for bob but a Takeoff Point for what has turned out to be one of the most fun on all careers in